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Anthony profiles as a centerfielder because that's where he played in the minors. Only you consider him a corner outfielder, I guess researching topics is a thing of the past!! Bellinger is a joke. He's a complete waste of time and money considering our current set of outstanding outfielders. They are all better than Bellinger and cheaper. Our 1Bs also are better choices than him considering his price. Trading an outfielder seems like a need because people over estimate Abreu's skills. He is highly overrated and that makes him a great candidate for a trade. That way Duran can move to his best position in CF, Rafaela can go to his best position in Fenway which is RF and Anthony can play left rather than centerfield despite profiling for CF because he's the weakest defender among Rafaela, Duran and Anthony. With Story being injury prone and Mayer being very injury prone, Campbell is likely to finally get a fair shot at his normal SS position once the two injury prone guys go down. Otherwise, he has no real position except DH since the bias against his defense is so great based on a small sample of plays from his rookie year in the majors that he's not going to get a fair chance to prove himself while the front office keeps genuflecting to the guy that can't stay off the IL. Be careful what you wish for Mayer fans, he was mediocre in the minors on defense with great athleticism like many others that are now playing outfield like O'Neil Cruz and Fernando Tatis. Campbell has been an excellent hitter his entire life but knowing how Boston often evaluates swings and comes to wrong conclusions and recommends changes that hurt the player like they did with Benny, I'm not shocked that all the idiot commenters on NESN who parrot the thoughts of bad front office personnel commented enough time about his unique swing style that coaches decided his great success of the first month was just luck so they made adjustments. Typical over coaching mistake. Let's hope someone like the guy that worked with Devers during the off season between 2018 and 2019 works with Campbell to refix his swing and return him to stardom. Breslow needs a 3B as his first priority whether it's Bregman or some other stud who can play defense and hit. The SP situation is in far better shape than 3B. Once he nails down 3B, then the #2 SP needs to be found (preferable right-handed) so there is someone to fill the gap between Crochet and Early. The top three will be highly competitive if Breslow does his job. The rest of the rotation can be filled from many current choices, hopefully, Tolle will be one of them once he adds a pitch. The staff only needs one #2 SP and this team has a shot at the division if the 3B spot is filled properly. We are so much better off than a year ago. Now if only they could get a real manager that doesn't choke.

Help me understand that logic. He's the 2024 Minor League Player of the year compared to Mayer who has been hurt nearly every season since he joined Boston in 2021. KC joined Boston in 2023 and a year later had graduated to AAA and got selected to be the only prospect to open the season on the MLB roster. He had a successful season in college before being drafted. We don't know if he was hurt or got crap coaching that radically changed the results of a player who had NEVER failed in his entire baseball career (22-year-old season). Mindless writers make dumb comments all the time in the Boston market and this guy trashes KC all the time. If his stats suggest to you that he's "Suspect" after 2024 then you are an extremely harsh grader. He's accomplished more that both Anthony and Mayer and I would NEVER call Anthony "suspect". Mayer due to his bad injury history and crappy minor league defense would need a promotion to be considered at the suspect level. He's a massive failure to date considering he was a fourth pick in the draft.

Bashing Campbell is practically a pastime for you so stop pretending you aren't a hater. With fans like you, Campbell fans need to root for a trade. Cora is a moron, and I don't see that changing so the sooner he moves to a better run team the sooner he'll be in the all-star game.

I see Narvaez as a one year wonder like Wong. If he can repeat his career year, I agree with you but I doubt it. The Devers money is still not used up so we can afford Realmuto but if we can steal the Colorado catcher that would be excellent.

Maybe. For me, his best skill dates back a few years but I loved when he came in to stop a rally when the starter finally struggled in the game. He left a lot of runner on base and that's a great way to keep a lead and win the game.

Abreu is a bum defender that only looks good using fake evaluations of his talent generated by the metric estimates. Count the errors. It's worked for 100 years and is factual not estimated. Duran hits lefties better so far in his career and his defense blows away Abreu if the numbskull Cora plays him CF where he is outstanding. Abreu is the only outfielder to trade since he is SO grossly over rated. I'll take the Red Sox SPs over the Yankee SPs any time. Cole can't compare to Crochet, Fried has dropped off and Early looks much better and surpassed him with his late season performances. Rodon is comparable to Giolito. Inconsistent. Gil is grossly over rated and a NEW right handed SP will rank better than Gil if Breslow does his job and Schlitter and Tolle are likely to be fairly comparable. Bello is every bit as good as Schmidt so the 6 man roster favors Boston.

Boston's loss.

I'm shocked at how quickly fans discard young players. Casas could get hurt every year from now on or he could never have another extended time period on the IL. More than likely, it will be somewhere between these two extremes so just maybe we should consider his skills first then estimate his injuries as a highly insignificant factor to apply at the end of the analysis. In three seasons he's finished 3rd in the ROY race and had two key injuries the other two years. In his best season he played in 132 games thanks to Cora's insistence on over playing the bench and he put up a .263 average, an OBP that was over 100 points higher than his average meaning he has a great eye, a slugging percent that is .220 above his average (his Isolated Power) which was excellent and an .856 OPS that translated to an excellent 129 OPS+. For me, that's enough upside to give him at least one more season in Boston, much like Campbell. Rafaela's and Duran's hitting didn't initially wow fans and now they are two potential all-stars. Both Casas and Campbell have the same huge upside if the organization shows patience. So where does the off-season money need to be invested? Starting right-handed stud pitcher and an excellent catcher like Realmuto since catchers are not typically expensive so buying an expensive one is relative meaning not terribly expensive. The rest of the money needs to upgrade the bullpen. This team is on the verge of greatness with just a few tweaks. Breslow needs to his job and fill the holes with the best available players. I think he will. I still pray he finally hires his own manager because they need a manager who can deliver a great August and September run because Cora's Achilles Heel is poor performance down the stretch due to his unorthodox managerial choices.

It's a very sound strategy to have a right-handed closer to go with Chapman. Depth and location in the opponent's line-up beginning in the 8th inning makes this a very wise move.

The pitching pecking order is simple: Crochet, Bieber (most cost effective choice), Early, H, Giolito, Tolle (off season needs to a d pitch) with Bello the first depth starter that can be the long relief guy until someone gets hurt. Dylan Cease is an over-priced alternative. Ranger Suarrez is not a SP2 in Boston. Gallen is no Bieber but is a decent fall-back choice. Imai is yet another wasteful Japanese pick so stay away. Go get Bieber and let's win the division with Bregman returning and Realmuto taking over at catcher.

We need a RH starter like Bieber. A catcher like Realmuto. A 3B like Bregman extended a year or two. And a better defensive alignment in the outfield with Anthony in Left, Duran in Center and Rafaela in the spacious right field. Casas or Campbell will need to play 1B and the other needs to DH. Abreu and/or Yoshida can be utility players along with Gonzalez. The team would have lots of offensive depth. The pitching staff is deep but the quality is not that deep. Crochet, Bieber, Early, Giolito and Tolle with Bello as their first depth with several others behind him like Houck, Crawford and others who will make the AAA team very strong. Garcia has time to develop along with others in AAA so the depth improves year to year. A strategic bullpen pitcher would be a nice add too. Teams usually don't go back to back so stick a fork in Toronto and Boston simply needs to beat out the Yankees with Cole back.

Bryce like Bregman is an exceptional ball player who struggles to play 150 games but he's elite when healthy, he's a true professional and good for the clubhouse. Bryce won't enjoy playing for Cora. It's like oil and water. Bryce has a Pedroia or Varitek old school mentality of intensity and not a lot of humor and I'm sure he will see Cora's favoritism as a real issue because he's all about meritocracy. Let's take Bryce off the table completely. If not for his days in Houston, I would take Bregman off the table too but he seemed to put up with Cora ok in 2025 but it must not have been too great since he opted out and was being paid more than he's worth. He also wants to win so both he and Bryce will try to land in LAD. Freeman is pretty old and doesn't look like Freddie anymore. Just go get Bieber, Realmuto and convince Bregman to extend with a longer contract and Boston should win the AL East.

Wow. What a ridiculous idea. Bellinger has sucked most of his career and with a breakout in 2019 then three bad years then a good 2023 a bad 2024 and a decent 2025 leading to a 120 OPS+. His value is less than Bregman's but his price is higher. A complete waste. He belongs in LA or NY. He needs high profile places and won't fit in a smaller market like Boston. Oh yeah and we have three 1Bs, and a half dozen outfielders so why not get a guy that plays the two positions and hasn't earned his money except in 2019 which was 6 years and 7 years before 2026. Boston has three simple acquisitions: 1 - A right-handed #2 Starting Pitcher (Bieber in trade or at $25 Million if a FA) 2 - A 3B which means give Bregman another year at $40 or go get Suarez for $15 Million. 3 - A C which mean Realmuto for $13 Million No need to overthink this off season.

The Red Sox should offer Casas $1 Million for 2026 and based on his performance decide on which way to go with him. He either is the 1B of the future and gets a long-term contract of 5 years or more OR he is the center of the next trade they make after the 2026 season. It's that simple. He's missed too much time to evaluate him on the small and non-recent sample size. Give him a year to prove himself or not and then decide. Here are the unfortunate facts about Boston decision making. Logic isn't their primary criterion for decision making. Mayer has had less success than Casas and has been consistently hurt like Casas but he will get the benefit of the doubt whereas Casas won't. It's politics and with Cora having input, it's biased. I'm still waiting to see if the gambling stuff will finally catch up with Cora, but he seems to be made of Teflon so it's likely he'll be around by the end of 2026 when the decision on Casas should be made. My guess is Cora will have already contributed to signing Mayer long term despite his weak defense, average hitting and propensity to get injured. Hopefully, that's not true. The far bigger off-season situation is Campbell. He is second to Anthony in skill but was never in the front office's plans until he won Minor League Player of the Year. They grudgingly promoted him before Anthony and Mayer but never gave him the respect they gave Anthony even when he came out of the gates on fire and Anthony was miserable yet hitting in the 3 hole. Without a real 3B since Bregman's ego is out of control, the team will surely use Mayer there and we'll see if his skills are closer to Devers as they were when he was in the minors or closer to Bregman's on defense. That leaves 2B and 1B as options for the very, very talented Campbell. If Casas hits then Campbell will need to play 2B since the outfield is full and Yoshida deserves to have first crack at DH based on his late season heroics. Despite outperforming Mayer on defense in the minors, the struggles Campbell had in a very limited debut at his new position of 2B has grossly tarnished his reputation as a fielder with the Boston fans who don't tend to use facts as much as the popular speech of the leftist media and the front office PR department. He's been an above average defender his whole life until his 2 months at 2B last season. Even then, his defense was league average according to traditional measures that reflect impact to the team not speculated estimates of the crazy left who think metrics are valid. For comparison purposes, nobody wanted to ship Devers back to AAA in 2018 when he sucked at hitting and led the league in errors (24) .926 fielding percentage while hitting .240. He never got demoted. FYI Mayer's fielding percentage at SS in the minors was .953 which is 15 points lower than Campbell's fielding percentage of .968 as a rookie. (42 points higher than Devers who didn't get sent down!) Campbell was so wronged in 2025 my hope is he gets traded despite believing he could help Boston more than everyone other than maybe Anthony because I love when a kid gets a fair chance to compete when he does not arrive in Boston with a silver spoon in his mouth like Mayer. There is no place in baseball for privilege. Meritocracy should be the fundamental evaluation criterion. Mookie was a black player who wasn't loved by the front office until he put up monster numbers and in the end was dismissed as if he did nothing to help the organization win a World Series. That level of respect has been shown to Campbell. I hope he's able to do as Mookie, Duran and Rafaela have done and prove he's a premiere player whether Cora or the front office agree and he has a long and outstanding career.

The irony of receiving just $10 Million for making the wild card spot is that most of the players probably make more on betting on games than 1/26th or whatever percentage of the $10 Million each player will receive for having their best year since Dombrowski. Today's news is all about how gambling is discovered to exist in sports. Wow, what a revelation!! We have a manager who got convicted by baseball for cheating in 2017, but NOBODY addressed the downstream impact of his actions. Is anyone naive enough to think that this scheme was unknown by the mafia and other illegitimate groups that are sports adjacent to baseball? How much money would you estimate was made by the same folks arrested today by what Cora did in 2017? I've been very vocal against his actions in the name of baseball and people have crapped all over my comments. Like always, I've once again been proven to be spot on correct. Hopefully, there will be a comprehensive FBI investigation of the bets placed in 2017 with a forensic accounting firm that can identify the abnormalities between betting by specific accounts on home games versus away games. I would not be shocked to find out specific accounts made hundreds of millions of dollars betting on Astro games. Kennesaw Mountain Landis rolls over in his grave while we have Manfred ignoring the enormity of the sign stealing offense. Participants that deserved to be banned from baseball for life weren't because sign stealing was nowhere near as impactful according to Manfred as steroids that were taken for 20 years before the 1990s without any discernable impact to HRs then a corrupt guy named Selig swaps out the make-up of the baseball creating 25% more HRs and he throws a whole generation of ball players under the bus so he can spin the reality into him saving baseball which he specifically impacted by changing the make-up of the baseball. Those in charge of baseball since Fay Vincent have all behaved corruptly. Manfred welcomed in the HUGE monies contributed to baseball on behalf of the corrupt gambling industry. It allows for baseball revenue to expand unnaturally from corrupt outside forces. Think about going to a game and knowing Cora was banging cans to tell the hitters the next pitch. With all the specialty betting that has grown since the gambling industry got it's hooks into sports, how hard would it be to win when you have knowledge others don't have? Now put billions of dollars behind those who will be making the bets and guess who wins those bets and more importantly who loses those bets? Did the public deserve to be protected from these actions? 100 years earlier the commissioner thought they did. Why doesn't the current commissioner feel the same way? My guess is the undisclosed money he makes from turning his cheek must be fairly large to give up your integrity. How about Cora? Is it a stretch to think he might lack the integrity to say no to the gambling industry seeking edges in their betting? Now think about how often pitchers throw 4.2 innings in a game negating their chance for a win. Having many fantasy teams, I know how many more times a pitcher is pulled after 4.2 innings than in previous seasons. With all the gimmick bets, how safe is it to bet the under on innings or wins when you know he'll be pulled after 4.2 innings? This is one of a myriad number of ways to be a successful gambler in baseball. Much like pulling yourself with an injury in basketball to win the under bets, the same can easily be done in baseball. It was bad enough when guys like Selig could manipulate Congress and the media with lies but now ALL integrity in baseball is lost so the players can now make obscene money along with the front offices, owners, managers and coaches. Baseball needs to shrink along with all other sports by removing the gambling industry from the sports industry to maintain the integrity of sports.

Joe, if not a stud like Greene, I suggest an experienced veteran like Bieber. No worries of TJ, playoff experienced, older so contract doesn't need to be long and historically reliable and effective. The window to win is now and the next few years.

Breslow has so few moves to make this off season he must get the one big move right. He missed on Sale and Priester so we have to be worried but he hit on Crochet and Bregman so he's got about a 50/50 chance of making a good trade or acquisition. His needs: 1 - A new 3B that can field and hit since Mayer is both untested (except for a few total chances at 3B in 2025) on defense and his hitting was not good enough to be a starter. We take a big step back with Mayer at 3B. 2 - A right-handed starting pitcher who slots in behind Crochet and in front of Early. Trade resources to be used to fill the two slots are defined by those left over after the following starters: Outfield of Anthony, Duran and Rafaela SS - Story DH - Yoshida Trade Resources: 3B - Mayer (overrated due to injuries and bad minor league defense. Upside, if he can actually stay healthy and play like he did in his small sample in 2025) 2B - Campbell (showed his upside in April and his downside after that. Underlying injury or simply inability to adjust to his first adversity in his career undermined his season. No loss of talent but something caused the massive drop to a guy who had never failed at baseball) 1B - Casas (mixed reviews on his career so far. High ceiling but needs to stay healthy and play defense) C - Narvaez (another one-year wonder like Wong so trade him while he has value or keep him as a back-up and dump Wong) OTHERS - The team is filled with overperforming AAA type players including: Gonzalez, Hamilton, Eaton, Grissom, Sogard, Abreu and Refsnyder. Minor League Prospects that are tradeable: Arias, Garcia, Gonzales, Romero, Soto, Bleis, Cespedes, Taylor Hang on to all the pitchers since it's traditionally a weakness of the farm system. At SP2, I suggest Bieber. Big game experience. Back from TJ and looking great. Cheapest of the outstanding Right Handed starting pitchers. Would it be worthwhile to seek Greene? Yes because he's young and a top 5 SP in baseball and not many teams have two in the top 5 except LAD. At 3B, I would hold off on offering anyone money because I believe Bregman will find out his value is far less than he and his agent believe. His true value is probably around $25 Million at best. Look at his numbers over the last several years and he had an injury shortened career year in 2025. He's a .260 hitter with an OBP of roughly .350, a SLG of .450 and an OPS of .800. He steals NO bases. He's good but not great. He can carry a team for a short time, and he can have severe slumps. He's great in the clubhouse but in the end he's aging and for him to expect $40 Million for multiple years is crazy. I get that he wants to test the waters but it seems highly unlikely he'll get a deal as good as he had with Boston. I believe he's hoping for LAD to land him and I would hope his agent has had a handshake deal for him to go to LAD to get him to opt out in BOS. Waiting on Bregman could get you a discounted Bregman. Breslow is in the best position by far that he's been in since coming to Boston and is better off than Bloom ever was after he dumped Mookie. Lots of optimism for 2026. Let's hope we get the #2 SP, the 3B that was here in 2025 and an upgrade at Catcher like Realmuto. After that the rest is minor fine tuning.

Narvaez is likely to be a one hit wonder like Wong. JT would start and solve the problem, but I'd rather see Breslow go back to the CWS and ask what they want for Teel.

So, you are still a bad gambler!! ha ha and I'm still a guy who refuses take money from you; I simply prefer to school you yet again. So here is why Burns is no Greene. While Burns will be a talented pitcher comparable to Greene some day here is what he's going to have to go through over the next several years which renders him a far weaker choice for a team ready to win in 2026. 1 - The kid's control hasn't been perfected so his numbers in 2026 won't be close to Greene who has already mastered his control. 2 - The kid will need TJ surgery in the next couple of years significantly reducing his value compared to Greene who has already experienced TJ surgery. 3 - The WAR for Greene will far exceed Burns in 2026. Then it might get closer in 2027, but the cumulative numbers will be even farther apart by the end of 2027. In 2028, his TJ surgery will give Greene a complete year advantage to add to his already higher cumulative numbers. You can do the math from there. Next, Abreu had better numbers vs LH pitchers in 2025 but that is completely explained by the splits. He hit RH Pitchers 312 times and LH Pitchers 61 times which means over 5 times as many at bats. That's the definition of a platoon hitter. In 2024, he had 338 RH at bats and 61 LH pitcher at bats. Nearly the same 5 to 1 ratio of RH to LH at bats. Platoon, just like I said. Raising his average vs RHs from .180 to .230 isn't exactly a major achievement especially with his average against RH pitchers stayed around .260. Leaving him with a pretty pathetic batting average for a starter. Split the at bats in 2026 and he'll lower his average even further from the .247 that followed his .253 in 2024. He'll end up around .235 to .245 hitter at best. Not exactly an average worthy of playing every day with his defense leading the outfield in errors over the last two years. Boston needs a catcher so ask for Stevenson and throw in another prospect but not Campbell. Campbell is a future all-star who needs a real opportunity to play his SS position or 1B if Casas doesn't bounce back from his year off. Mayer is injury prone yet very overrated, so he needs to be in the deal. Campbell, thanks to Cora, is very, very under-rated considering he's one year removed from Minor League Player of the Year. The equity in the trade comes from overrated players like Mayer and Abreu. Narvaez is overrated as well and if we add #1 prospect Arias to get Greene and Stevenson, I say do it because Arias has no place to play.

Sorry but that's an illogical argument. The contribution is cumulative for the year not during the time period they played. Campbell contributed far more to the winning in Boston in 2025 than Mayer and Mayer received preferential treatment from Cora, but it didn't matter because once again for what appears to be the 5th time in 5 years Mayer spent a long period on the IL? You've rationalized the ascension of this privileged player past the clearly superior numbers of the unfavored player who was never supposed to be the star of the future and only got an initial start because he came out of nowhere to set the minor leagues on fire in 2024. But Cora made sure he put him in his place and reemphasized the prejudiced prospect rankings being pushed in the media. Campbell is a SS playing 2B and two outfield positions, Mayer was a SS playing 3B and 2B. That argument about Mayers defensive success using the extremely small sample doesn't hold water. Reread what you wrote. That is the definition of a rationalization on your part. Contributions for a season are always cumulative, and the cumulative numbers make this a no brainer to the objective viewer. More offensive stats across the board and the misrepresentation of his defense is a travesty on your part. Campbell had 7 errors in 235 chances. Those are FACTS. That is a fielding percentage of .970 so he was successful 97 percent of the time on defense. I don't believe that number represents the lowest fielding percentage in baseball at any position. Fake facts from fake sources. They don't represent the truth. You must be yet another leftist who makes things up by subscribing to the fake facts distributed by metric companies who have falsely invaded the statistical side of baseball. FYI Mayer made 2 errors in 99 chances for a fielding percentage of .980 or 1% higher. That difference doesn't suggest an offset so great that Campbell's huge advantage on offense would be surpassed by his slightly lower fielding percentage. Again, rationalization is the only word that fits your conclusions. Campbell remains the superior prospect fighting to overcome the prejudice of the front office, manager and uninformed fans.

This is a perfect example of the prejudice that has existed in Boston for years. Cora, the GM's since Dombrowski, the owners, the coaches and the media. Campbell hit .300 for the first month and finished with the following stats 67 games, 263 PA, 239 at bats, 24 runs, 51 hits, 10 doubles, 0 triples, 6 HRs, 21 RBIs, 2 SBs, 1 CS, 29 BBs, 72 Ks, .223 BA, .096 walk rate, .122 Isolated Power, .664 OPS The often-injured Mayer shortened his season with yet another injury 44 games, 136 PA, 127 at bats, 20 runs, 29 hits, 8 doubles, 1 triple, 4 HRs, 10 RBIs, 0 SBs, 2 CS, 8 BBs, 41 Ks, .228 BA, .044 walk rate, .174 Isolated Power, .674 OPS The first player got a grade of C- after he produced 39 runs in 67 games The second player got a grade of C+ after he produced 26 runs in 44 games The other numbers align fairly closely with BA almost identical, walk rate for Campbell was double Mayer's walk rate, Mayer's Isolated power was 52 points higher, Campbell stole 2 of 3 bases while walking 29 times and Mayer stole 0 for 2 while walking just 8 times. Campbell stayed healthy the whole year while Mayer missed a major portion of the year and had no hot streak during his limited at bats. Campbell spent an entire month looking like the ROY until the book caught up with him and he was sentenced to AAA by Cora so we'll never know if the hitting coaches could have eventually corrected his problem like they did Anthony who had by far the worst start of any rookie. Most folks would prefer the guy that had a hot streak and ended up at the same number of the other player who never had a hot streak. Most folks would prefer an OBP 47 points higher. Bottomline, to give Mayer a C+ when Campbell gets a C- when he outperformed him in total production by staying healthy reflects the privilege that has been granted Mayer his whole life!! Campbell didn't grow up with privilege that carried over to his pro career, yet he has completely outperformed Mayer over the last two seasons. I completely disagree with your assessment. I think Mayer deserves a D and Campbell a C. You can't help your team if you aren't on the field. Campbell could have been on the field for 162 games without Cora whereas Mayer has consistently missed many games. He's never had more than 350 at bats in any of his first 5 seasons with Boston. Campbell was drafted in 2023 and had 378 at bats prior to being drafted and another 68 at bat at ROK and Hi-A hitting .309 and another 430 at bats in 2024 at Hi-A, AA and AAA hitting .330. In 2025 he had 500 at bats between AAA and the MLB. So, in the last two seasons he's had 930 at bats and played in 255 games while Mayer has played in 77 games in 2024 and 87 games in 2025 for a total of 164 games or 90 less than the durable Campbell. Mayer has made 18 errors in 90 less games and Campbell 20 errors, thus producing a higher fielding percentage and better hitting. Funny how often opinions on this site don't align with the factual data. I say Mayer in 2024 gets a B+ since he missed nearly two months and a D in 2025 for missing even more than that and Campbell gets an A+ in 2024 when he won Minor League Player of the Year and a C in 2025 since he carried the team for a month before he fell off dramatically. Some think he played through injuries that he had never experienced before. We'll see in 2026.

Fake stats. My old friend Joe Brady. There goes the neighborhood!!! Wow, lets deal in facts, shall we? Greene is one of a few great young pitchers and Boston needs a top of the rotation right-handed pitcher. Greene is perfect to compliment Crochet, Tolle and Early. His numbers rank him with the great lefty in Boston making a short post season series ideal for Boston to win even if Cora is allowed to stay. So, what do you have to give up acquiring him? Let's dump the overrated players: 1 - Injury prone Mayers. He was bad defensively in the minors at SS so maybe he'll be better at 3B but I doubt it. He's a lot of flash and little substance plus he'll average 110 to 130 games a year due to his constant injuries. No brainer, dump him while he still has a lot of hype. 2 - Platoon player Abreu. He gets excessive hype from a gold glove earned while committing the most errors in the Boston outfield over the last two years. He can't hit lefties. Yep .200 just doesn't cut it against LH pitchers. Let his shortcomings be an issue for another GM/Manager. 3 - Narvaez, our latest over-rated catcher. Much like Wong, he's done nothing most of his career then started out well in 2025 and badly faded. It was a career year, and it was mediocre for a division contending team. He's an excellent defensive back-up catcher but not good enough to be a starter so sell high. 4 - ANY OTHER AAA HITTER IN THE FARM SYSTEM. The younger hitters at the lowest levels of the farm system have some decent upside but not at AAA. Garcia seems like the most likely to be included so Cincinnati gets a SS/IF in Mayer, a DH in Abreu, a C in Narvaez and an OF in Garcia. Boston gets the best young right-handed pitcher in baseball in Greene and Crochet and Greene take the Red Sox to a division title in 2026. And fans get to laugh at whatever team is willing to pay Bregman $40 Million or more for more than the next two years. His actual numbers for the last two years suggest a salary far below the super generous $40 Million he was making in Boston. Hopefully fans learned their lesson that Devers defense WAS SO BAD that Bregman's defense while good was worth roughly 10 wins for Boston. The next 3B needs to be able to field and if Mayer ends up there, we'll give back at least half the wins gained by Bregman. He's not shown a history of good defense beyond the few games he played in during 2025. If he can repeat his level of play for a full season in 2026, he will finally live up to some of his hype, but he's been in professional baseball for 5 seasons and never has lived up to it so far. Joe, welcome to the website. Good luck with the moderators. I personally think you'll fit in well here. Facts are not valued, and I think the mob will like your opinions. There are many with the leftist beliefs about metrics so they should like you a lot!!

The loss of Teel is devastating from a catching perspective. A retread in Narvaez and a career minor league skilled Wong puts Boston back in the position of seeking a long-term solution. They drafted their answer then mistakenly traded him. Maybe this time around they should sink some of Devers' money into a quality catcher that can work with the pitching coaches and Varitek to make catcher a strength rather than a weakness.

Randy, excellent point but you have to partially blame Cora for his mismanagement of the outfield. I've posted that defensively Duran is best in CF and the demands of RF call for an outstanding fielder like Rafaela who has a big arm and of course the franchise player like in the past needs to reside in LF. Abreu is a pretender. He leads the outfield in errors over the last two years and can't hit lefties so trade him before his shortcomings become more obvious. Next, fire Cora and get a manager who understands why prototypical batting orders existed for 100 years. Mr. Mix and Match (Cora) created some of the shortcomings of Duran and Rafaela while his special treatment of Anthony significantly helped him develop in his rookie season. Smart line-ups would raise runs scored and team batting average. The outfield without Abreu should be outstanding in 2026. The catchers suck. Casas needs to return to form so Lowe can be a left handed hitter off the bench as well as the reserve CI. Mayer's defense was good during his incredibly short sample in 2025. It contradicted his weak defense in the minors so we need to see if he can stay healthy and not make errors like he did in the minors. Campbell just needs a new manager to be the all-star he should be based on his talent. If Story gets hurt Campbell should get to play his primary position of shortstop. That or they should trade him to get a right-handed stud young starting pitcher. Trade Abreu and Campbell as the key pieces in adding a RH starter. Next year, if Tolle and Early progress as they should, this team should win the division unless Cora is back. Then they will make a wild card spot at best.

Facts about the recent errors since 2022 don't really match the above commentary about this year!! Where were there significant error issues this year? (Data included below) Catchers 16 errors are significantly up from previous 3 years First base NOT AN ISSUE Second base significantly up from previous 3 years Shortstop up from 2024 but normal compared to other years. Can't blame Story. He was average. Third base HUGE improvement with Bregman. Devers was a true butcher. Left field Duran adjusting to LF didn't raise the errors but he's far better at CF Center field was by far the worst in years further supporting the idea that Rafaela should play RF so Duran can move back to CF his best position by far. Right field saw a huge improvement which further invalidates Abreu's GG. 7 errors in 2024 and 5 errors in his partial season in 2025 main source of errors in RF. Here is the hidden secret about errors in 2025. Pitchers made 16 errors doubling the 2024 total. So do we have a defensive problem that needs to be fixed? Yes, but it's not significant. First the catchers must improve, next, 2B must improve significantly and finally to improve the outfield defense Anthony must play LF, Duran CF and Rafaela RF. The alleged Gold Glover in RF has provided far more errors than any other outfielder which blows up the myth of him being a good defender, especially as a platoon hitter. His value is minimized by these two facts. Isn't it great when you read REAL stats that show something completely different than what the blog is touting to be the truth!!! Facts always ruin the opinions of amateurs pretending to be experts!! Catcher 2025 - 16, 2024 -13, 2023 - 14, 2022 - 9 First base 2025 - 10, 2024 - 15, 2023 - 8, 2022 - 12 Second base 2025 - 19, 2024 - 15, 2023 - 16. 2022 - 9 Shortstop 2025 - 21, 2024 - 18, 2023 - 24, 2023 - 22 Third base 2025 - 15, 2024 - 19, 2023 - 22, 2022 - 18 Left Field 2025 - 7, 2024 - 10, 2023 - 4, 2022 - 7 Center Field 2025 - 6, 2024 - 4, 2023 - 0, 2022 - 1 Right Field 2025 - 6, 2024 - 13, 2023 - 8, 2022 - 5 TOTAL FIELDER ERRORS 2025 - 100, 2024 - 107, 2023 - 96, 2022 - 83 TOTAL PITCHER ERRORS 2025 - 16, 2024 - 8, 2023 - 10, 2022 - 12